More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 19

They go back to the King and bid farewell, and tell him not to be so hasty another time to order people to be beheaded before having a proper cause for it.

Who acts: presents · What happens: go back, bid, tell, not be, order, behead · To what, where: King, people, proper cause · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (presents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bid	cc
8	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
9	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	8 bid	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 hasty	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	18 hasty	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 hasty	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 hasty	advmod
18	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 order	mark
22	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 time	acl
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 order	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 beheaded	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 beheaded	aux:pass
26	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 order	xcomp
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 having	mark
28	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 beheaded	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cause	det
30	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cause	amod
31	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cause	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	present	presents = present				to the King result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result
2	bid	past	presents = present not said here				farewell property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			King	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	not is	to-infinitive					hasty property	tree rules
5	order	to-infinitive			people			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
6	behead not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»
7	have	gerund		a proper cause			for cause	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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